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Loving God, you who hold all truth in your hands, This morning I sit with the uncomfortable words of your Son: "Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you." I confess that sometimes the enemy I struggle to...
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As we gather this morning, I want to take you back to a quiet church in Scotland, where the soft glow of candlelight flickers against the ancient stone walls, and the scent of polished wood mingles with the rich aroma...
As the sun dipped below the horizon, casting a warm golden glow over the suburban neighborhood, Elliott stood outside his modest home. Just moments before, he had shared laughter and tears with a friend from another world—a being who had...
In the film *Nomadland*, we meet Fern, a woman who, after the economic collapse of a small town in Nevada, finds herself living in a van, traversing the vast American landscape. As she travels from one dusty campsite to another,...
Eric Liddell could have stayed famous. After winning gold in the 400 meters at the 1924 Paris Olympics — a story later immortalized in *Chariots...
In December 1938, a twenty-nine-year-old London stockbroker named Nicholas Winton canceled his skiing holiday and traveled to Prague instead. What he found in the refugee...
In 2014, a young fisherman named David Ochieng worked the pre-dawn waters of Lake Victoria near Kisumu, Kenya. Fishing was all he knew — his...
In 2018, a photograph surfaced of a former bodyguard testifying against the very person he had sworn to protect. Reporters noted how he avoided eye...
In the winter of 1941, Pastor André Trocmé stood before his congregation in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, a small village in the mountains of southern France, and...
In the spring of 1945, Private First Class Desmond Doss stood atop the Maui Escarpment on Okinawa — a jagged, thirty-five-foot cliff the soldiers called...
When Dietrich Bonhoeffer boarded a ship back to Germany in July 1939, he was walking away from safety. He had just arrived in New York,...
In 2018, a couple from Chicago named Marcus and Elena drove through rural Kentucky searching for a renowned woodworker whose hand-carved furniture had gained a...
In 2019, a registered nurse named Clara Jennings transferred to Ward Seven of Cook County Hospital in Chicago — the unit everyone avoided. Ward Seven...
In June 1939, Dietrich Bonhoeffer stood on the deck of a ship bound for New York, watching the German coastline disappear. Friends had arranged a...
In August 1732, two young Moravian men — Johann Leonhard Dober, a potter, and David Nitschmann, a carpenter — stood on a dock in Copenhagen,...
In 2018, a journalism student named Marcus Chen sat in a Chicago diner across from his grandfather, a man who had survived China's Cultural Revolution...
Clara Gutierrez was eleven years old when her father took a job that kept him behind a closed office door most evenings. She would stand...
James Whitfield spent three days on his hands and knees in the backyard, sifting through mulch and overturning stepping stones. His wedding band had slipped...
In the heart of one of the most brutal battles of World War II, amidst the cacophony of gunfire and the cries of the wounded, there stood a man named Desmond Doss—a conscientious objector who believed deeply in the sanctity...
For thirty-seven years, Gerald Howell climbed the spiral stairs of the Cape Bonavista Lighthouse in Newfoundland every evening at dusk. Even after the Canadian government...
In adoption finalization hearings across the country, there comes a moment when everything else falls silent. The social worker reports have been filed. The home...
Every autumn, the ruby-throated hummingbird — a creature weighing barely three grams — launches itself from the Gulf Coast of Louisiana and flies five hundred...
In December 2022, a Southwest Airlines meltdown stranded thousands of passengers across the country. At Baltimore-Washington International, Gate D7 became a pressure cooker — canceled...